Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

by Rita Dove

Book Overview

In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls' night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali's conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324050438
• ISBN13: 9781324050438
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.3"